The Everyday Life Reader

by Ben Highmore (Editor)

The Everyday Life Reader brings together thinkers ranging from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources. It thus provides a complete and comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life.
Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life, setting theories in their social and historical context, and each themed section opens with an essay introducing the debates. Sections
*Situating the Everyday
*Everyday Life and 'National Culture'
*Ethnography Near and Far
*Reclamation Work
*Everyday Things

Genres: Sociology, Anthropology

392 pages, Paperback

First published December 13, 2001

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction to the theories of everyday life from a wide range of philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and other contributors worth exploring. Highmore has edited a collection that is an essential text for anyone interested in the aesthetics, mundanity and materiality of everyday life.

[Casey Browne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great introduction to the theories of everyday life from a wide range of philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and other contributors worth exploring. Highmore has edited a collection that is an essential text for anyone interested in the aesthetics, mundanity and materiality of everyday life.

[Nat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought this when I was writing the Haute Banal paper. Interesting collection of papers on the everyday, but with a fair amount of po-mo jargon.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent collection of critical writings on the patterns and daily minutia that slip through the fingers of theory.